Turner



(No Model.)

I. P. TURNER.

GUFP BOX.

No. 250,113. Patented Nov. 29,1881.

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ISAAC P. TURNER, OF TROY, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO GOON & 00., OF SAME PLACE.

CUFF-BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 250,113, dated November 29, 1881.

Application filed August 30, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, Isaac P. TURNER, of the city of Troy, county of Rensselaer, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cuff-Boxes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a manner of constructing cud-boxes; and the object of theimprovement is to produce an inclosure of cardboard or other suitable material which will contain and protect the cuffs for shipment and transportation, and which will, when opened, display the cuffs placed therein to good advantage.

My invention consists in constructing a cuffbox having a cover and body, with the latter reduced in exterior projection to receive the cover above the line of the cover-rest, and internally divided in two unequal upward projections of the body, which are separated by a vertical partition, and which partition is omitted below or near the line of the cover-rest formed on the sides and end of the body, so that the hand may be passed in through the shallower division of the body and under the cross-partition to raise the cuffs from out of the deeper one of the two divisions formed in the body.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, there are two figures illustrating my invention, and to designate like parts the same reference-letters are used.

Figure 2 represents, in perspective, a view of the cuff-box body with the cover taken off. Fig. 1 shows the cover,'in perspective, as removed from the body and turned over.

The several parts of the cuff-box containing my invention are designated by letter-reference, and their functional construction for the purposes designed described as follows:

The letter D designates the cover of the cuff-box, and B B the body, containing the cnff-inclosures A B, which are divided by the partition 1?. The sides and ends of the cuff-space A are shown as projected upwardly higher than those of the cuff-space B, so that the former has greater depth than the latter. The cross-partition P does not extend down to the bottom of the box-body B, but, as shown, and in part by a dotted line, is omitted or cut out a short distance below the line of the cover rest or stop S, and so as to form the opening 0, through which, from the cuff-space B, the hand may be passed to raise from beneath the ends from out of the deeper inclosure, A.

When cults are placed in the two inclosures A B those in the latter project above the sides of the box, and are displayed to good advantage when placed in show windows or cases for sale, and where their appearance attracts the attention of purchasers. When cuffs are placed in boxes with the sides of the latter projecting above the cuffs so small a portion of them is discernible it is difficult to tell what they are, and the advertising value of their exposure lost.

Boxes to contain cuffs have been made with their sides cut inwardly and downwardly on an angle to remedy this difficulty; but the boxes so made were unsightly, and the sus taining strength of the boxes impaired, when used to contain cuti's for shipment or transportation, by thus cutting out the body-sides.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

A cuff-box composed of a cover, D, and body B, the body being divided into two parts, A B, to receive the cuffs, one part of which has a greater vertical depth than the other, and a cross-partition,P,separating the parts at their 7 top, leaving an opening at the bottom for the passage of the hand from the shallow part to the deep one, to raise the cuffs from beneath and out of the deep. part, as shown and described.

Signed at Troy, New York this 25th day of August, 1881.

ISAAC P. TURNER. Witnesses;

HORACE L. HroKs, HARRY P. FIELDING. 

